Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/592701566323946678/Manufacturing-in-Structural-Change-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32317 |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the scale,
causes, and timing of significant episodes of
industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of
manufacturing output and employment shares tends to occur
prematurely in this region. The analysis is performed using
panel data methods for fractional responses and data from a
variety of sources for a panel of 41 African countries. The
results overwhelmingly do not support the common finding
that Sub-Saharan African countries have begun to
deindustrialize. Moreover, the study documents meaningful
heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the
Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed
deindustrialization. However, this deindustrialization of
the Southern subregion does not appear to be occurring
prematurely. The study also explores the potential role of
the Dutch disease and resource curse hypotheses in
understanding Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing
experience in resource rich countries. |
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